My Actifit Report Card: April 16 2022

Did some editing on the book on libertarianism today but generally didn’t get a lot of writing done. Part of the reason for this was having a lot of conversations, some of which might bear fruit in future work opportunities.

Generally feeling pretty well, despite ongoing stomach issues things are pretty painless right now so I think I should be set for some nice productivity next week. Overall I am in good spirits, and I’ve been doing a lot more reading (and listening to audiobooks) recently, which should bear fruit in preparing for future writing.

Currently listening to a book that is focused on presidential history. I don’t have much nice to say about it, other than the interesting anecdotes it presents, so I won’t name it or its author since it’s more mediocre than bad. If it were awful, I’d write a polemic. But for the truly mediocre, where the response would be “don’t waste your time,” it seems like a moot point.

One issue comes up whenever you look at a historian who insists on analyzing to their own points at the expense of realism. Deontology is my own mode of operation, but I do not believe in holding my own values over the past. Of course, I can say that people acted in a way I would not.

But without walking in their own shoes, who am I to judge? It may be that they were great moral reformers on some issue which we have not had to even be aware of, and it may as well be that they thought in ways very similar to us but came to radically different positions due to differences in perception.

Of course, sometimes this is harder to justify than in other cases.

I’m getting excited about stuff coming up. My Consoles and Controllers is going to feature in a bundle next week, which is a good reminder that I was going to go back and do some further layout work for it, and there might be another bunch of freelance (or otherwise) work on projects coming up.

I expect to have Carrion Birds out in a couple weeks–maybe even by the end of next week–and then the book on libertarianism will be out to the beta readers as well.

God is good, life is good.

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